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- The activity around Agile is a bit like the frenzy…of a major league sport.…A lotta people are talking about Agile,…some people are writing about Agile,…many teams try Agile,…but only a few teams play Agile at a professional level.…An Agile transformation is a major change…from business as usual.…To start, you need to prepare for significant challenges.…To play like a pro,…your team needs to practice and make…a strong commitment to change.…Becoming a professional Agile team…means re-engineering the way they think about work.…Agility is a mindset that can be improved and not perfected.…

Your team will always be on their Agile journey.…There's no Agile pizza party or…Agile complete memo.…There's no finished Agile box that you can check.…This makes Agile particularly difficult…to start in your organization.…There's a long ramp-up period,…it requires people to think differently…and there's an unclear time frame.…In a sense, it's a never-ending process improvement.…When you start introducing Agile,…you wanna identify why the organization needs to change.…

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3/23/2015

Agile is becoming the preferred project management approach for fast-moving projects. At the heart of any agile project lies an agile team. In this course, the first in lynda.com's Agile at Work series, expert Doug Rose uses a sample project to show how to build your agile team. A team with an agile mindset is self-organized, collaborative, and accountable. He also outlines the common pitfalls inherent in the implementation: new teams need to watch for confusing their roles and understand the challenges with managing self-organized groups.

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